Assessing an architect’s earliest commission or first completed project is always fun (though perhaps not so for the architect), since such acheivements often document the architect’s early insecurities, capture what it is later recognized as a trademark flourish in an awkward state of development, or memorialize early mistakes that are hopefully not repeated.
Such observation is [...]
Critics have rightly argued that the mere physicalization of the fold can in no way approach the complexities embedded in the concept; the fold, like all other theoretical and conceptual constructs, necessarily exceeds the formal domain of architecture. [page 62]
Very soon after the introduction of Professor Lisa Iwamoto’s new book, sentences such as the one above confirm [...]
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